Denver Open Source Users Group October 7, 2008

Basic Concepts: Matthew Quinlan, Chief Evangelist & VP of Community Development for Appcelerator.

Quin' will be discussing the multi-language web application and web services platform, AppCelerator, that has been gaining a lot of attention in recent months.

Use POJOs to create services
Web Expression Language – drastically reduces the amount of Javascript required to build an interactive web application
Unified Widget Platform – allows you to create your own widgets or leverage widgets from other libraries including Flex and Flash widgets
Interactive Use Cases – since our architecture is message-oriented, we can create mock services in the UI to simulate service requests. The benefit of this is that you can build fully functional prototypes that are 100% reusable. The mock services also define the contract between the UI and the services that need to be implemented. It’s sort of like technology-driven Agile development. We use this process internally and with our customers – it has worked really well.
Matthew Quinlan serves as the Chief Evangelist & VP of Community Development for Appcelerator, leading the company's brand awareness, community development and user adoption programs. Prior to joining Appcelerator, Quinlan was the founder of the JBoss evangelist team, the open source middleware leader. After JBoss was acquired by Red Hat, Quinlan founded Red Hat's "Rockstar Program," through which he was responsible for the recruitment, training, and evaluation of all customer-facing technical talent at Red Hat. Prior to JBoss/RedHat, Quinlan spent 8 years as a professional consultant for Tallan and Interwoven writing custom software solutions for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Quinlan is a graduate of Purdue University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science.



Main Topic: No Fluff Just Stuff Speaker: Venkat Subramaniam presenting Dynamic Languages in Spring Application Architecture

Venkat's appearance courtesy of No Fluff Just Stuff tour and Jay Zimmerman

Bio: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc. has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He helps his clients succeed with Agile Development and various software technologies. He is a frequent invited speaker at various international software conferences. He authored .NET Gotchas (O'Reilly), and co-authored the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf). His most recent book is Programming Groovy (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Abstract: Dynamic languages provide some great capabilities for adding dynamic behavior to your Spring applications. In this presentation we will take a look at the various options for mixing dynamic languages with Spring and what benefits you will derive from mixing these languages with Java. You will take away tips on how to enhance your Spring applications using languages like Groovy and JRuby.

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